Tas. 6508. 
STENOMESSON LUTEOVIRIDE. 
Native of Ecuador. 
Nat. Ord. AMaRYLLIDACEA.—Tribe PancRaTIEZ. 
Genus Stenomesson, Herb.; (Baker in Ref. Bot. sub t. 308.) 
Srenomesson (Coburgia) Juteo-viride; bulbo globoso tunicis membranaceis 
brunneis collo elongato cylindrico semipedali, foliis synanthiis lineari-loratis 
viridibus, scapo ancipiti terminali sesquipedali, umbellis 5—6-floris pedicellis 
brevibus, spathe valvis magnis ovato-lanceolatis, perianthio luteo-viridi 4- 
pollicari, ovario oblongo, tubo subcylindrico, segmentis oblongis cuspidatis tubo 
2-3-plo brevicribus, filamentis dimidio inferiori in coronam coalitis margine 
inter filamentorum partem liberam dentibus deltoideis integris vel obscure 
dentatis preedito, antheris fulvis lineari-oblongis, stylo exserto. 
This is a new species from the high Andes of Ecuador, 
which flowered for the first time in the spring of 1879 with 
Messrs. E. G. Henderson and Son, of the Pine Apple 
Nurseries, Maida Vale. It is nearly allied to the well-known 
Coburgia trichroma of Herbert (Bot. Mag. tab. 3867), and 
quite similar to it in its cultural and climatic requirements. 
The present plant differs from trichroma in the colour of its 
flowers and by its longer corona and more acute green 
leaves. There does not appear to be any valid character to 
separate Coburgia as a genus from Stenomesson, and the 
latter has the claim of priority. I do not think we can 
properly regard the first six species of Coburgia as admitted 
in Kunth’s Synopsis as more than mere varieties of the 
plant that was first described by Ruiz and Pavon in 1802 
under the name of Pancratium variegatum. 
Descr. Bulb globose, two or three inches in diameter, 
with thin brown membranous tunics, which extend up the 
cylindrical neck to a length of six or eight inches. Leaves 
about four, contemporary with the flowers in spring, linear- 
lorate, fleshy, bright green, glabrous, a foot long at the 
flowering-time, an inch broad, narrowed gradually to the 
AUGUST Ist, 1880. 
